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Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...

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Tenement A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access. They are common on the British Isles, particularly in Scotland. In the medieval Old Town, i ...

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Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

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Rudolf Kern Rudolf Kern was an important designer and builder in Bydgoszcz, at the end of the Prussian period of the city. Most his works have been realized between 1903 and 1914. His artistic style relates to Art Nouveau and Modernism. Life Rudolf Kern alle ...

Eduard Schulz Tenement is a habitation house located at 66/68 Gdańska Street in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

Location

The building stands on the eastern side of Gdańska Street, between Słowackiego street and

Adam Mickiewicz Alley Adam Mickiewicz Alley is one of the main streets of downtown district in Bydgoszcz, where several buildings are registered on the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Heritage List. Location The street links Gdańska Street to Józef Weyssenhoff ...

. It is close to Alfred Schleusener Tenement at Nr.62, another historical building in the same street.

History

19th century

In the middle of the 19th century, Karl Hildebrandt a judicial executor opened in the back yard a summer garden and a bowling. In 1882, in the garden at the back of the property was built a wooden summer theater, originally called ''Victoria'', on the design of architects J ózef Święcicki and

Anton Hoffmann Anton Hoffmann was an important designer and builder in Prussian-time Bydgoszcz during the entire second half of the 19th century. He witnessed the transformation of Bydgoszcz, creating numerous residential buildings throughout the city. His activ ...

. Theater and concerts performances were held here. The new house was standing on a previous building where Eduard Schulz was living since 1893. He had there his restaurant, ''Elysium''.

Eduard Schulz's period

The tenement has been built in 1904-1905 for the restaurateur Eduard Schulz by the architect

. The building is stretched along Nr.66 and Nr.68 of Gdańska Street: both houses formed a complex network for house and business purposes. Its address was, in Bromberg's time, ''134 Danzigerstrasse''. Eduard Schulz opened there a new restaurant, ''Zum Reichskanzler'' (''To the Reich Chancellor'').

1920s till today

In 1922, the Company ''Deutsches Haus'' became the new owner of the lot: it ran in the premises a restaurant, a German theater ''Deutsche Bühne'' and a hotel until 1945. After

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, a new restaurant, ''Słowianka'', has been set up there. In the period 1947-1949 at the very place of the old wood theater was built the actual Polish Theatre by architect Alfons Licznerski. In the upper levels a disco club opened in November 1975. Today, Nr.68 houses the District Chamber of Legal Advisers of

Architecture

Eduard Schulz tenement has got an

decorated facade decoration, significantly impoverished as a result of renovation and rehabilitation. Initial decoration of Nr.66 frontage have been revived by a refurbishment during summer 2016. Likewise, on the facade of Nr.68, one can still notice

gargoyle In architecture, and specifically Gothic architecture, a gargoyle () is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing it from running down masonry walls ...

s and stylized floral motifs. Inside are still preserved a staircase with its original door, railings and

stucco Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and a ...

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Gallery

File:Bdg Gdanska66 2 07-2013.jpg, Gdańska 66 building File:Bdg Gdanska68 2 07-2013.jpg, Gdańska 68 building File:Bdg Gdanska66 1 07-2013.jpg, Art Nouveau elements on the building at 66 File:Bdg Gdanska68 3 07-2013.jpg, Decorations on Nr.68 building facade File:Gdanska 68 door.JPG, Door detail (Nr.68) File:Gdanska 66 AC.jpg, Bay window at Nr.66 File:Restaurant elysium 1914.jpg, Detail of 1914 Bromberg map with the restaurant "Elysium"

References

External link

Site of Bydgoszcz Polish Theatre

Bibliography

* {{Bydgoszcz historical housing Buildings and structures on Gdańska Street, Bydgoszcz Art Nouveau architecture in Bydgoszcz Residential buildings completed in 1905 1905 establishments in Germany